if you join us hey guys what if I told you that Anakin had a father at least in
the first rough draft for a new hope and his father was actually a cyborg
now Anakin became more machine than man after Mustafar but it wasn't always the
case in George Lucas's first rough draft for
Star Wars it was his father and not him well sort of there was a character named
Anakin Starkiller spelt a and n I K I n who had
a Jedi father named Kane Starkiller that was more machine than man
Anakin would later be renamed Luke in this draft there is an old Jedi general
named Luke Skywalker but the cyborgs dad was already present from the beginning
having just left their home after fighting a Sith Warrior who killed
Anakin's younger brother the fledging jedi and his father are headed to the
planet aquila which has spelled a qu IL AE to meet up with this legendary
general Skywalker to aid him in fighting the Empire when Caine Starkiller and his
son Anakin arrive Kain asks Skywalker to
take his son as his Padawan learner when Skywalker asks why Caine reveals
that his arm and chest are mechanical there's nothing left but my head and my
right arm I've lost too much Luke I'm dying I'm just going to interject here
for a second Padawan learner was there from the very beginning now just let
that sink in even before he wrote the actual script - episode 4 1977 which
came out in 1977 he was writing that far before that in the 70s Padawan learner
was a thing at the very beginning now I wonder why Lucas didn't use the term
more in the original trilogy or at least at all after leaving his son with Luke
Skywalker Caine would head out to meet up with an alien friend of his named han
Solo but soon general Skywalker receives word that a
giant space fortress is on its way the general sends Anakin to pick up Princess
Leia at the academy and it can retrieves Leia but not the handmaiden
one of whom remains as a decoy now we later see Lucas return to the handmaiden
decoy The Phantom Menace I hope your wheels are starting to turn now in your
head because it's all making sense Anakin Starkiller Skywalker the robots
captain wit son the two young princes Biggs windy and Leia all get into
disguised land speeders counts and egde arrives with troopers to prevent them
from leaving but Skywalker cuts him in two they leave the canyon as the
fortress behind them self-destruct to make sure no one can betray them after
the fact the speeder stopped on a bluff overlooking a small Cantina on the
outskirts of Gordon the others princess Anakin and the rest join them in the
slum quarter they find Caine star killer what son takes the droids into another
room to play chess quote/unquote Skywalker Han and Anakin meet with datas
and the other rebels they discussed the space fortress or you know the Death
Star they will have to flee on a freighter with the two young princes but
in hibernation to do so they need an extra energy pack so Caine rips one from
his mechanical chest may the force of others be with you he says just before
dying so even here the cybernetic father sacrifices himself to help his son and
his friends something we know Lucas would use again later on though I think
he first went back to it for Episode five and six when he made Darth Vader
Luke's father however he wasn't originally supposed to be Luke's dad in
Episode four but we see the themes of father and sons sacrifice and redemption
these elements are spread all over the draft and the subsequent drafts are
eventually films it was just figuring out how to convey them in the most
satisfying way that took some million rewrites to figure out also we got
hibernation which would later become carbon freeze I think it's pretty cool
how Lucas wanted to implement all of these ideas into a new hope and you know
the ideas are completely different mean Anakin Starkiller Luke Skywalker being
obi-wan and then Anakin having a cyborg father who takes the energy pack out of
his chest you know sacrificing his life so that his son may live on and says may
the force of others be with you I mean that's really the first time we hear
that made force be with you may the force of
others be with you these are like the original rough drafts from the 70s this
is really cool stuff I hope you enjoyed this video I'm gonna make many more like
this covering from these books the making of Star Wars Episode four or five
six Episode one and two and I've covered pretty much all of three from that book
you know years ago so it's about time I cover the rest of all these I hope you
have an awesome rest of your day throw a like on this one if you did enjoy it and
I'll see you in the next video until then remember the force will be with you
always
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